[Openswan Users]

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Bgs wrote:

> 96: eth2.2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
>     link/ether 00:0a:cd:0d:79:7e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 192.168.2.254/24 brd 192.168.2.255 scope global eth2.2
>
> Despite the correction pluto still won't start. I even tried to bring down all
> vlans, but the result is the same, so be all looks it's not related to them.
>
> Still:
> Jan  4 00:02:20 bgs pluto[495]: FATAL ERROR: Failed to bind bcast socket in
> init_netlink(). Errno 2: No such file or directory
>
> I managed to strace pluto:
>
> [pid  9016] bind(9, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=9016, groups=00000003}, 12) =
> -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> It might help to somebody more knowledged in the source :)

It would be more usefil to set a gdb breakpoint so you can catch the bind()
call arguments. I'll see if I can give you a patched version of server.c that
at least logs the attempted ip, so w ecan diagnose this further.

Paul